Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Garlic and Cilantro Naan Bread

Naan bread is one of Carlos favorite things to eat at an Indian restaurant. I think he like the chewy, perfectly blistered flat bread to be eaten with curries. Normal Naan bread in cooked in a tandoor oven but since we don’t have it, we just baked it in the oven. Naan also can be filled with potatoes or other type of fillings but we like ours with loads of garlic and herbs. I served these Naan with Chicken Tika Masala. I will post the recipe here later.Ingredients:

1. In a bowl mix the lukewarm warm, yeast and sugar together until combined. Set it aside until it turn frothy.
2. In another bowl, mix flour and salt together. Add in the yogurt and oil, follows by the yeast mixture. Mix until combined. Turn the dough into working table and knead until elastic and smooth.
3. Cover with a plastic wrap and set it aside to proof until double its size.
4. In the meantime mix the soft butter garlic and chopped cilantro together. Set it aside.
5. Line a baking sheet pan with aluminum foil. Put the oven rack to the center of the oven. Put the baking pan into the oven and pre-heat the oven to 400 degree F.
6. Divide the dough to six portions. Roll the dough out to oblong shape (don’t roll it out too thin)
7. Switch the oven to broil. Take out the hot baking sheet and drizzle it with some olive oil. Put the roll out dough onto the sheet (3 at a time) and put it into broiler.
8. Keep an eye on the bread and check to see if it puffed up and the surface turn brown. Filp the naan over and continue to broil the other side until lightly brown. Take it out of the oven and brush it with the garlic and cilantro butter.
9. Put it back to the broiler for another minute. Repeat the same process until you finish baking your naan’s. Serve with your favorite curries.

Hello Gert, what a nice match-making dish, hehee..I never made this Nan bread...should give it a try one fine day..hahaa...long que in list and always lack of time...huhuuu..I've tried out your Japanese-Style Sweet Bun...so soft! Hope you don't mind I wanna CnP the recipe...thanks a lot Gert, muaahhh!

Oh oh oh... I love this!!!!Actually once I saw a recipe on Southern Pinch Biscuits,and the blogger made them look like flat breads, something like a darker naan and I made them to eat with curry. Hahaha, they were scones!!!! I thought it's bread like, but nope.. it's scone like. You'll see that in Sept. Yeah, made weeks ago, takes months to post.

I'll try this the next time I make curry. Keeping my fingers crossed. :)

oh there is this curry naan bread i get a trader joe's that i have been meaning to recreate at home for some time now. if you go to trader joe's please try it, i think you might like it. i love it with hummus and chutney.

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